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Cheryl Johnson in front of the Fig Tree restaurant on Bequia.
Turning Pages, Turning Lives: A Sea of Support for Cheryl Johnson’s Youth Reading Program on Bequia

Turning Pages, Turning Lives: A Sea of Support for Cheryl Johnson’s Youth Reading Program on Bequia

No one who enters that bathroom at the Fig Tree Restaurant expects to leave in tears. Children’s handwritten letters are decorated around the walls with messages of pure gratitude. One letter reads, “I love reading club because Mrs. Johnson is a loving, caring, and intelligent woman. She loves the kids at reading club because it helps us to learn to read books. Yours truly, Jadese. Love you to Mrs. Johnson.”

Batak mothers with their children in the forest.
Palawan: It takes a village to save a forest

Palawan: It takes a village to save a forest

Some people have meetings over Zoom, others trek for hours into remote rainforests to meet over coffee. KM Reyes does both. The Australian-Filipino woman and five other youth behind Centre for Sustainability PH spent two years going back and forth just to earn the trust of communities living in the forests of northern Palawan island, Philippines. A journey easier said than done.

Man in Ghana with Flag
Ghana: A Cultural Pact

Ghana: A Cultural Pact

Soon after arriving in Ghana, the effects of climate change were starkly evident to Clare Cutler. Clare traveled to Ghana as an agricultural volunteer for the Peace Corps in 2015, hoping that connecting with people on a personal level would help her better understand the realities of our world while studying the effects of climate change on ecological systems.